Bound with duct tape, doused with lighter fluid, set on fire, shot twice in the shoulder and 9 months pregnant, Latonya Bowman thought of one way to escape from her kidnapper.

“I told myself to play dead,” Bowman, 22, said Friday of her horrifying ordeal last spring.

“Every part of my body was in pain.”

Testifying in a Warren courtroom against the two men accused of plotting to kill her, Bowman said she heard a person running from the dark Detroit alley, leading her to believe that the stranger who had forced her into the back seat of a vehicle about 15 minutes earlier, had fled. She said she tumbled to the ground to smother the flames, freed her hands, peeled the tape off her mouth and glasses, and wriggled out of her jeans.

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Yet a vehicle chime heard through an open door provided hope that the kidnapper left the keys in the ignition. Severely burned, Bowman said she drove to a gas station, where the owner offered to call police.

Bowman survived. Three days later, she gave birth to a boy via emergency Caesarean section. Both were hospitalized for weeks.

The suspects in the abduction and assault, Jamal Rashard Rogers and Antonio Valentine Mathis, both age 22 who were roommates on Sherman Avenue in Warren, face charges of assault with intent to commit murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, unlawful imprisonment and conspiracy to commit unlawful imprisonment. Mathis, the alleged gunman, also faces one count of possession of a firearm while committing a felony.

Bowman testified she has known Rogers for six years and said he is the father of the child. She said they had a dispute last fall over the surname to be given to the baby and partial guardianship that Bowman wanted her mother to have. The couple stopped speaking to each other in October 2011 but resumed contact a couple months later.

On May 25, Bowman picked up Rogers at his home and they went to a late-night, drive-in movie. They left after 1 a.m., before “Men in Black” ended, Bowman said, because she needed to go to the bathroom. Prepared to simply drop Rogers off, she agreed to pull into the garage.

Bowman said Rogers exited the Saturn Vue she was driving and closed the garage door.

Seconds later, a man put a gun to the back of her head, ordered her to get on the ground and place her hands behind her back, bound her with duct tape and forced her into the rear seat, she said. Moments later, she felt the vehicle was moving.

“The assailant kept putting his hand on my side, on my stomach, saying it was going to be OK, he was taking me home (and) he wasn’t going to hurt me.

“I started to get more scared,” she said.

Bowman testified the man drove about 15 minutes and inquired about how far along she was in her pregnancy.

“He then asked me did I know why this was happening to me,” she said. But with her mouth taped shut, Bowman couldn’t reply. His voice had a remorseful tone but turned angry when she started to cry.

“He told me he was going to make a deal with me. He said he was going to pour gas on me but wasn’t going to kill me but would tell him he killed me,” she said. Bowman testified she heard a lighter or the striking of a match and slightly saw the glow of flames through an area below her glasses not covered by the tape.

“He said, ‘Man, I shouldn’t even be doing this s---,’” she said.

The district court hearing to determine whether the two suspects should stand trial in Macomb County Circuit Court was adjourned following objections by defense attorneys over the questioning of Rogers while in police custody.

Warren Detective Cpl. John Barnes testified that Rogers waived his right to prompt legal counsel and willingly spoke to investigators until he suddenly said, “I think I want to talk to a lawyer.”

Barnes said Rogers was taken to Warren Police lockup. Barnes testified he was obtaining DNA samples the next day from all of those in custody when he walked by Rogers’ cell and the Warren man asked, “Can we talk?”

The veteran detective said Rogers provided Mathis’ name and agreed to talk to investigators.

At that point of Friday’s hearing, Rogers’ attorney, Gabi Silver, argued that the police conversation should not have resumed.

“He made an unequivocal request for an attorney” the previous day, she said. “He should have had a right to counsel.”